Entry for April 19, 2008

Yahoo 360

My favorite subject of late is bashing yahoo for their pigheaded stupid idea of dumping 360, neglecting the users, and IMHO trying to create a blog/social network/whatever based on what I have no idea. I don't wish to squash creativity, but with close to 100 different sites out there, why in the hell would Yahoo want to blow their standing as the number 4 site on the world to the likes of Windows Spaces, Spacebook, My Face, Divide/multiply add subtract or whatever.

I want to provide you the reader a chance to see I am not alone in this critical commentary, so here are some of the multitue of comments people have posted on the Yahoo 360 Communty page:
Well I have a Facebook account and it sucks with all those stupid, childish pokes, gifts, causes and even porno pics posted on your wall which I know you can delete but Facebook to me is childish and no features like 360 to style your backgrounds..Facebook appears so far to be set up for the young kids to 30ish age bracket that like to party and so on. 360 I find is for mature adults that want friendships and blog their experiences of daily life. If your intention is to set us up to be like Facebook I'll be outta here. Why is it you start something that flourishes into a fine blogging site and start messing around creating so many bugs you never get around to fixing to tell us you are going to move us all over to something else? Why don't you fix 360 first. Seems to me all the bugs 360 has will just follow over. Why is it when you have something good you feel you have to change things? 360 page load drags, profile avatars are down to two yet showing you can upload to 4, quick comments disappear, comments on blogs are either blank with only avatar, non existent or one has to refresh the page a couple times to find out if they need to re-comment, you write in concerns and you get a stupid generic letter with no explanation or you get no response, you write a blog only to discover it doesn't take OR you can't even delete, Blasts go all nuts and repeat itself when the words aren't even written???? So you think after all said and done a new place is going to be any better? I really don't think so.

What exactly is wrong with 360 that it needs to be changed to something else...I personally Dont want the change, Im happy with that we have, cant you just leave it like it is ??

don't ruin 360! Just fix it, and add to it to make it better!!! Please don't say this id going to be a tranformation to Mash, PLEASE NO!

There are 2108 comments at last count on the subject of dumping 360, including the link to a petition to save 360 http://www.petitiononline.com/keep360/petition.html

I doubt yahoo is listening or cares...sadly.